We have managed to get hold of the official Spiceworks 4.6 Screenshot for your viewing pleasure.

They came with a 4.6 care pack full of information about Spiceworks 4.6 but that was all covered off in more detail in my review

Expand Your IT Help Desk
Help Desk Email Notifications
Customize Tickets On-the-Go
WAP Support for Network Maps
Network Alerts in Spiceworks Toolbar
Search & Buy CDW Products from the Toolbar
Track Power Management Consumption
See More Spiceworks (without Scrolling)
New Featured Plugin: Intel’s SOL/IDEr Terminal

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Following Francis’s (Spiceworks) recent tweet (below) we have also heard the 4.6 is due out in the next 24 hours! Keep your eye out for it can’t wait to get it onto my real server

They are currently providing some cool information on hosted exchange 2010 email.

The early access window was meant to run from March 3rd-11th, but due to some last minute issues was released a day late.

Please read the following posts on information on how the early access program will work. Please be sure to test your favourite 4.5 features as well as the new 4.6 features!

• 4.6 Testing Guidelines
• 4.6 Testing Plan

Progress Bar as Spiceworks Starts Up The first thing you will notice when you start up Spiceworks 4.6 is the new splash screen. It will give new users the chance to watch some videos on how Spiceworks can help them.
The registration box has also been cleaned up and a “existing user” link put on to help stop confusion.

Click read more for the rest of the review

The dashboard The dashboard has stayed almost unchanged… I say almost as its starting to get busier with more plugins being added by default. The Intel power manager has now been added to the default installed plugins.
PM and Community Notifications on Status Bar One of the nice new features is being able to check what’s going on in the community direct from Spiceworks. At the moment you can see how many PM’s you have at the top off the screen which isn’t always that accurate. Spiceworks in 4.6 have brought this into the notification bar and made it more “live”.
Vertically Resize Tables: Helpdesk, Reports, Plugins & Software You can now vertically resize the table views for the helpdesk, reports and well pretty much every table. This is to allow you to see more or less information at a glance, some people will want to see every ticket and screen to the detailed information and others will want to see more of the detailed info and less tickets. Click and drag the bottom of the table to resize to your desired size.
View and Kill Processes on Remote Computers To help combat problems remotely you can now view and kill running processes on a remote machine. This could be very useful for those lazy IT admins who have applications which keep freezing up. Select a computer from your inventory and click on Running Processes in the Troubleshoot section. See this help document for more details.
Search & Buy One of Spiceworks biggest and best partners are CDW they have provided prizes, webinars and product help. In 4.6 CDW and Spiceworks have teamed up to allow you to search for products and services from within Spiceworks and buy on the spot. The CDW Search plugin is enabled by default, for users in North America. If you do not see the CDW icon on your status bar, go to Settings->Manage Extensions and click Configure on the CDW plugin. Change Show Outside North America to On and click Save. Its a great way off keeping Spiceworks free.
Virtualization Management You can now see your ESX, ESXi and vSphere VMs in inventory, just like a physical device. This is what could be the first steps in a lot bigger and better virtualization management at the moment you can see machine names, OS and the RAM and HDD space allocated. Go to Settings->Network Scan, and edit your scan ranges to add in ESX login information.
Network Map Improvements There are lots of new improvements to the network map including reports of it running a lot faster. New Device Support New devices are supported for the network map discovery. You can now map Cisco Wireless Access Points. Dell network equipment will display the service tag. Device List A list of devices is displayed on the right side of the Network Map. You can see device attributes at a glance using this list Print Preview Clicking on the print button on the Network Map gives you a preview of how your map will print. Cloud Counter Any device that has been collapsed will show a count of the hidden devices attached to it. Double-clicking on the cloud will expand it again and remove the counter.
Add HTML files to Plugins Make your plugin code cleaner by separating out the HTML sections into separate files. There is documentation and a tutorial to show you how this is done.

Of course we will keep you updated with any more features or news we heard about 4.6 remember to join the early access community group.

A full review with screenshots is on its way, for now here is the official release statement:

The first build of the Spiceworks 4.6 Early Access is now available for you to try out. Testing and feedback from you is an integral part of every release cycle and we appreciate the time and effort you put into giving us the feedback. In addition, you’ll be sure that the final release is a seamless upgrade for you.

Please read the following posts on information on how the early access program will work. Please be sure to test your favorite 4.5 features as well as the new 4.6 features!

• 4.6 Testing Guidelines
• 4.6 Testing Plan

Want to use your existing data?

Follow the instructions in the how-to on moving your installation. This build will automatically upgrade your data. Please note: The migration will take a while. Please be patient during the migration.

Want to submit a problem report?

Follow the instructions in 4.6 Testing Guidelines

We strongly caution you against using the early access build in production. If you hit a serious bug you may have to start from scratch!

Click Here To Download 4.6 Early Access Build I

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We will be downloading and screen shoting all the new features for those who aren’t able to try it out.

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If you now go to the the Water Cooler Forum directly you can see a Spiceworks Chatroom Box

Nic is trying out having a chat frame in the Water Cooler forum directly, to gauge how much usage it will get (as well as how rowdy it becomes

If it does turn out to be something useful, he said hell look into setting up something more fully featured.

Post your comments and feedback

* Adjustable sizing for help desk tables
* Virtualization management
* Remote process-stopping
* Improvements to Network Map discovery
* Search & buy from within Spiceworks

Really looking forward to more on the virtualization management

Now that you’ve got a SpiceCorps up and running, you’ll be needing to schedule meetings. If you are the SpicePioneer (or admin for the SpiceCorps group), you can send out an invitation to everyone who is a member of your SpiceCorps group. This will let you know how many people to expect and easily pass important information along to them.

For more information on starting a SpiceCorps, please visit this page.

The new feature lets SpicePioneers setup meetings quick and also automatically PM invitations to all members allowing them to RSVP.

When the meeting is over the SpicePioneer can put up meeting notes and the real attendance. Once the notes and attendance are done, points will be awarded both for attendance and for the meeting organizer.

The points system will give 100 points for attendees (up to 4 meetings a year).

Read more

• Events Planner – In February we will see the start off the event planner which allows SpicePioneers to setup meetings and PM the group. Group members can then RSVP, and then the SpicePioneer can mark attendance to award Spice points.
• News tab on Whats New – shows the Official Spiceworks News so that you don’t have to pop back to the home page every time to see it.
• Show Peppers for Partners – This one I like the idea off, we will be able to see the SpiceLevel off the Spiceworks Partners that way everyone can see how active the they are, to give reputation to their answers. As well as start some friendly competition between them.
• Twitter name on profile – If you link your Twitter profile to your user status, Spiceworks will display your Twitter username on your profile.
• Notify when post is moved – PM all subscribers to a discussion when it is moved, so they know where it is now.
• Notify all spice voters when a Feature request is implemented – Anyone who has voted up a feature request will be notified when that feature request is implemented, this is designed to help show users how many get implemented.
• Bug fixes – As with everything there are bugs and the Feb release will have the normal bug fixes in as well.